travel light, pay attention
After two years of ducking into the storm cellar with every new variant and surge, I’m going to London at the end of March. Not exactly the trip I originally planned – three weeks instead of six, one city instead of three – but after reviewing the venues and exhibitions, I am fired up and feeling lucky. Time to revisit the daily itinerary, double-check the current status of venues, and book those timed-tickets.
I’m a past writer, present painter, autodidact and idiolect. What thrills me is world-class art and I travel to look at it closely and at length. This blog is about those journeys; the planning, strategies, eager anticipation, doubts at 3 a.m., and my actual, boots-on-the-ground experience. I always pack a sketchbook and my best manners. […]
Blame it on the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. This is the second time they’ve hooked me with one of their bewitching lures – an exhibit of works by William Merritt Chase, prolific painter and teacher. Of course I know and admire his work. Of course the show opens in October and closes in January. I […]